Umbrella and similar stand.



A. WANNER, JR.

UMBRELLA AND SIMILAR STAND.

APPLICATION man 11m: 17. 1916.

1,235,262. Patented July 31, 1917.

2 SHEETSSHEET WITNESS:

Patented July 31, 1911'.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

WITNESS.

ALBERT WANNER, JR.,

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on NEW YORK, n. Y.

UMBRELLA AND SIMILAR STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed June 17, 1916. Serial No. 104,149.

1 b aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT \VANNER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Um brella and Similar Stands, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stands, racks and the like of the class including a pedestal and a horizontally arranged supporting structure carried by the pedestal, and it consists in certain improvements in atands of this class whereby a structure strong and durable, attractive in appearance, capable of being readily assembled and disassembled, and adapted to be manufactured at the minimum of cost is produced. My invention is herein illustrated as an umbrella stand or rack, but it is to be understood that it may be applied to other constructions including apedestal or columnar upright and a hori zontal supporting structure adapted to be fitted over the pedestal or upright, the feature of fitting the supporting structure over the pedestal or upright in such a manner as to obtain a substantial and rigid bearing on the latter being one of the essential characteristics of the invention. In the preferred form of the invention the support proper of the horizontal supporting structure is composed of sections or plates of laminated sheets of fibrous material cemented together; in an alternative form such support proper is composed of one piece of laminated fibrous sheet material.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the preferred form of the improved stand or rack;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the supporting structure thereof;

Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective detail views illustrating the elements of said structure;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line m:c of Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a plan of the alternative form of the supporting structure,

Fig. 7 is a side elevation thereof; and,

Figs. 8 and 9 are sectional views on line f/ of Fig. 6 showing alternative ways of connecting each bracket to the support proper.

a is the pedestal or columnar upright, the same being slightly tapered upwardly. To form a base for this upright there are provided the radial legs 6 which may be attached thereto in any suitable manner but which are preferably removably jointed thereto as in my application for patent bearing the Serial No. 103,0458, filed June 12th, 1916, in conformity with one object of the invention, which is that the rack or stand may be of the knock-down class, if desired, and capable of being packed in the smallest possible compass for storing and shipping. As in my said application, the upright a may be extended upwardly as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1 and carry at the top a cluster of hooks, thus to form a clothes tree.

c is the horizontal supporting structure, fitted over the upright a and made to have a substantial and rigid support thereon, to these ends being constructed as follows, referring first to Figs. 1 to 5.

, The said structure in plan is shown in the drawings as circular. It includes the segmental plates (Z and radial brackets e, the plates and brackets alternating. In the preferred construction each segmental plate (Z is composed of a series of layers of fibrous material, preferably wood having the grain of the different layers crossing, cemented together. The brackets e may each be formed of a single plate of wood arranged vertically and having a horizontal top face and an inner upright face 7, the latter being in clined to the same angle as each side face of the upright a, due to the upward taper of the latter. Opposite grooves 9, formed horizontally in each bracket 6 near the top thereof, receive the adjoining or radial edge portions of two adjoining segmental plates (Z, which are cemented in said grooves by glue or the like it as seen in Fig. Each segmental plate (Z, in order to form an umbrella stand, may be provided with the open- 111g 2.

At the innermost point of each plate (Z it is formed with a right angular notch 7' whose sides coincide with the inner faces f of the brackets, so that a recess 70 confornr ing with the rectangular cross section of the upright is produced centrally of the supporting structure a.

A supporting structure thus formed is adapted to be fitted over the upright a in the manner shown in Fig. 1, being jammed down thereon so that the taper of the upright will insure a tight joint being produced. In the actual construction shown, the supporting structure binds against the tapering upright both in the plane of the segmental plates and below the same, where the downwardly projecting portions of the brackets e have contact with the upright.

Referring, now, to Figs. 6 to 9, thesupporting structure includes a plate Z formed of laminated sheets of fibrous material, preterably wood having its grain crossed, cemented together, and radial brackets m. The plate Z, shown circular in plan, has a central square opening a to snugly fit over the upright a. The brackets, substantially like the brackets 6 already described, are secured to the under side of the plate Z so that their inner slightly inclined faces 0 are flush with theflsides of the opening a. Each bracket may be secured to the plate Z by brads or other securing devices (Fig. 8)

or by the dovetailed tongue-and-groove connection 9 extending radially of the plate, the groove being formed in the under side of the latter and the tongue on the top of the bracket. To make the joint thus formed permanent, so that this form of the supporting structure may be unitary in character, the same as that shown in Figs. 1 to 5, glue 9' maybe employed in the joint g.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination, an upwardly tapering columnar upright, and a horizontal supporting structure fitted over the upright and including alternating horizontal plates and radial brackets joined together, said plates and brackets bearing inwardly' against the upright.

2. In combination, a columnar upright, and a horizontal supporting structure fitted over the upright and including alternating horizontal plates and radial brackets joined together, the brackets and plates having horizontal tongue-and-groove connections, and said brackets bearing inwardly against the upright.

3. In combination, a columnar upright, and a horizontal supporting structure fitted over the upright and including alternating horizontal plates and radial brackets oined together, the brackets and plates having horizontal tongue-and-groove connections, and said plates and brackets bearing inwardly against the upright.

a. In combination, an upwardly tapering columnar upright, a horizontal support proper having a recess receiving and fitting snugly to the upright, and radiatingbrack ets secured to the support and each bearing inwardly against the upright.

5. In combination, an upwardly tapering columnar upright, and a horizontal supporting structure fitted over and arranged laminated sheets of fibrous material secured together and alternating brackets, each bracket having horizontal grooves in its side faces receiving the lateral edges of two adjoining plates.

7; In combination, a columnar upright, and a supporting structure fitted over the upright and including horizontal plates of laminated sheets of fibrous material cemented together and alternating brackets each bearing inwardly against the upright, each bracket having horizontal grooves in its side faces receiving the lateral edges of two adoining plates.

8. In comblnation, a columnar upright,

right and being composed of laminated sheets of fibrous material'cemented together,

and radiating brackets secured to the sup port and eachbearing inwardly against the upright.

in testimony whereof I aifix my. signature.

ALBERT WANNER, JR;

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